Sandblasted Heart

The heart painted with acrylic ink before sandblasting.

The glue gun attempt at writing statistic. A bit untidy but still legible when close up.

Sandblasting practice but using a piece of paper clay as that is all that was available.

After sandblasting and peeling the glue off.

For this heart i painted it and wrote the statistic 'only 28% donate' with a glue gun and then sandblasted it to give the appearance of eroding.

Precious and Wasted Hearts

Collection of the clay hearts waiting to be fired.

Using photolythography to transfer text about how to register as a donor on to the clay hearts.

Mixture of porcelin and grit clay to hopefully create cracks.

Using 'slip' or liquid clay to create the rust effect.

The squashed heart.

I've decided to continue with the campaign for organ donation and am responding to the statistic only 28% people are on the organ donation register by making 3 'precious' hearts and 7 'wasted' hearts. Here are a few so far;

Clay Organs

Newspaper templates and the clay built around them.





There was an accident in the kiln with trapped air in the kidneys but i used it to my advantage and painted the inside, so again it was like the lungs.

With the lungs i tried to make them slightly interactive so you can lift one side and see the inside.


Eyes, using acrylic ink to paint again


The hand was modelled from Gavin's hand using mod rock and plaster.

I've had a go at making the other organs that can be donated like the lungs, kidneys, eyes and the hand (following the research i did about the first hand transplant).

Production of Hearts

The finished heart! I'm quite pleased actually!

After it has dried out and been fired i painted it with acrylic inks.



For my Final Major Project i'm looking at Organ Donation and i'm making some clay hearts to show the fragility and preciousness of our hearts, but also how they can be great gifts at the same time. Here's my first attempt, using St Thomas's Clay.